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Sam Pollard

@sdpoll.bsky.social

Computer scientist researching formal methods. I enjoy TTRPGs and staying inside.

24 Followers  |  11 Following  |  11 Posts  |  Joined: 09.09.2023  |  1.1456

Latest posts by sdpoll.bsky.social on Bluesky

I'm currently in flux of where to post my research updates. Looking for a formal methods/programming language/software engineering community on one of the socials.

05.05.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going back to Twitter for now. Bluesky doesn't have the same level of liveliness, and its Discover tab will show the same posts for days or weeks in a row.

30.12.2023 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Chapter 8: addition

Chapter 8: addition

A book in my shelf. It's interesting that from a floating-point perspective, addition is harder than multiplication because figuring out the magnitude is more difficult than addition, so requires more logic.

19.10.2023 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Handcar

Handcar

Some people on here arguing over public transit when what we really need is thousands of miles of railways for these only

09.10.2023 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awaken is a weird spell. One time my party awakened a bird and asked it some questions, then tried to bring it back to its mate. I then posed that the creature would never be able to bond with its mate on any meaningful level because their intelligence differences were too vast.

22.09.2023 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good lighthouse facts in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJU...

22.09.2023 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I ran a one-shot with that worked out great. The festival had great activities and plot hooks, and the dungeon was just enough to wrap up in a 5 hour session. Definitely worth the purchase!

21.09.2023 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely check out Between Two Cairns and the guests/feed curated by Yochai. I've also enjoyed running Vaults of Vaarn, a science fantasy TTRPG.

21.09.2023 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting ideas. In my experience it's been harder to design encounters that are hostile _to the players_ instead of just _hostile_, but that difference can lead to more dynamic gameplay.

21.09.2023 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Importantly, the necromancers control over his minions is in complete and he can only vaguely suggest commands to them by way of saying "wouldn't it be cool if..."

18.09.2023 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet saying "the human mind was not meant to experience a grocery store" by @m0nstermf

Tweet saying "the human mind was not meant to experience a grocery store" by @m0nstermf

Tweet saying "I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catΓ©gories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him." by @boywaif

Tweet saying "I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catΓ©gories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him." by @boywaif

The two sides of modernity

17.09.2023 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0